By Miguel Rivera

World Boxing Council (WBC) President Mauricio Sulaiman says his organization will be very focused in their efforts to ensure the middleweight contest between full champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (46-1-1, 32KOs) and interim-champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs) takes place in 2016.

He says in 2015 their goal was to do everything possible to assist in the organization of a Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao showdown. After six years of failed negotiations, that fight finally took place. Their second goal was to do everything possible to help the respective promoters make a fight between Canelo and Miguel Cotto and that fight finally happened last month.

The WBC has allowed Canelo and Golovkin to have interim-fights in the first half of the year, with the understanding from both sides that a Canelo-Golovkin fight must be held in the fall. If either fighter backs out from the agreement with his organization, Sulaiman warns that the offending boxer will lost his WBC title.

"It was a tremendous, historic year, with fights like Mayweather-Pacquiao, and that of Canelo-Cotto. We are going to work hard to make sure that the fights between the best will take place [in 2016] and the most anticipated of them all is between Canelo and Golovkin, the regular and interim middleweight champions of the WBC, and we could see them face each other in September in the United States. They both have an optional and then they must face each other," Sulaiman said.